Epistemologica Synchronicitie: Latin America and Greece

This project comparatively investigates the symbolic, cosmological, and epistemological resonances between indigenous Andean civilizations and the ancient Hellenistic world, articulating history, anthropology, and philosophy. It analyzes how distinct mountain societies—Inca and Greek—developed convergent responses to questions of order, sacredness, memory, and governance through vertical cosmologies, ritual economies, and mythical narratives. The research also explores the modern uses of these pasts: how colonial and national projects in Latin America and Greece mobilized memories to constitute identities, highlighting asymmetries in historical recognition and the Eurocentric hierarchies of antiquity. Highlighted in this process are the Andean and Balkan insurgencies—from Túpac Amaru to the Greek kleftes—as well as the shared ethical dispositions between the Latin American and Greek experiences. Finally, we advocate a comparative, decolonial, and plural approach to global history that values relational ontologies, practices of resistance, and marginalized cosmologies as a way of questioning dominant epistemic regimes and expanding the horizons of historical thought.